Wii Still Love It

We are still having so much fun with our Wii. Every night we are playing it, usually it's MarioKart. Lenny is also quite fond of Monster Jam Wii. That could be part of the reason that I haven't updated the blog for a while. :-) It's funny because we have never been fans of video games but there is just something different about the Wii that has us hooked--all of us.




Young Chefs Academy

On Friday, July 11 we went to the Young Chefs Academy and Lenny learned how to make pizza. He had a great time.


They first learned about flour and how to measure it. Then they all made their own flour castles. Lenny is holding his flour castle.


Then they played with the flour for a little while.


Then they got their dough and had to knead it and shape it. Here is Lenny and Mikie working with their dough.


Now for the sauce, cheese and pepperoni.


While the pizza was in the oven the kids made chef hats.

Lenny ate all of his pizza that looked like Mickey Mouse. He was proud of it.



Brooke and her Cow

I've mentioned many times about Brooke's cow. She is so adorable in the morning when she wakes up. It takes her a few minutes to wake up so she just sits there with her cow ear up to her nose and mouth. She keeps the other hand on the other ear. Then after a minute or two, she switches and puts the other ear up to her nose. She looks so sweet!



Brooke's Surgery

On Monday, July 14 Brooke had surgery at Children's Hospital in DC to remove a cyst near her collar bone that she has had since she was born. It started out as a dimple when she was born and it kept getting bigger and came out as a bump. Her pediatric surgeon recommended removing it. Nunny came down on Sunday to spend the night so that she could take care of the boys for us while Brooke had her surgery. We had to be at the hospital at 6:45 a.m.

Here the kids are acting goofy with Nunny on Sunday after their bath and before bedtime.



Brooke's surgery went smoothly and when she woke up she didn't even know that anything happened to her. Brooke had a great time in the hospital before her surgery. She made a few friends. There was one little girl who was about 10 years old there for a surgery and Brooke kept taking toys to her. You could tell that the little girl really liked it. It was so cute. Brooke is our little social butterfly.

Sad News

After the surgery we went in to the recovery room and were waiting for Brooke to wake up. We got a call from Dominic's dad telling us that Dominic's aunt had passed away that morning unexpectedly. It was quite a blow and we were very sad by the news. We hurried Brooke along in waking up so that we could get home and let Gloria go home. We headed to Pennsylvania and needless to say the rest of the week was difficult. We really cared for her a lot and are going to miss her terribly.

Just Pictures

I just liked these pictures and had to include them. Brooke and Nate were wearing their speedo hats around the house acting silly. In this picture, Nate was playing peek a boo around Dominic. He looked so cute.


I just love this picture of Lenny and Brooke. They are always playing together.


Nathan with his blankie in the morning. Brooke and Nate only get a binky at night now. It's cute to see them in the morning because they know they have to hand them over. When Nate is ready for his milk, he slowly hands over his binky but keeps the blanket. Brooke always teases me a few times before she finally hands over her binky.


Nate has also picked up a new habit. He has watched Brooke put her cow ear up to her nose for so long that he recently decided that he must need to do that too. He now puts his blanket up to his nose and looks at us like he's doing something neat. We laughed so hard the first few times he did it. He has no idea why he is doing it except for that fact that Brooke does it with her cow ear.

After looking at all the pictures in this post, it seems like all we do is play MarioKart. We really do other things besides that. I had to laugh looking back at all the pictures with Dominic in them. In each of them, he has the steering wheel in his hand.

From the Mouth of a Four Year Old

I haven't done one of these for a while. I keep forgetting to write them down and I then forget the stories. The other day, we were playing MarioKart. We were playing the race that is in a volcano. Lenny said, "This game makes me hot." I thought maybe he was playing for too long. I asked him why and he said, "because it's in a volcano." Smarty pants.